The Accepted Paradigm:
The current narrative of modern American journalism and American society is conservative, right-wing, white males are primarily responsible for social violence. We are the owners of the assault style rifles, we are the militias, we are the NRA. Right wing, white men are responsible for the suppression of women, blacks, undocumented aliens, and commit the majority of mass shootings. The liberal progressive movement needs to resist our antiquated, repressive social mores, and fight for a more tolerant, diverse, loving, and safe society. It is time to rise up and fight the power! Thank God for the NEA, the molders of young minds!

In Steps Snopes.com, THE FACT CHECKER:Snopes is our internet lie detector. Amid accusations of left-leaning bias, Snopes received a double thumbs-up from factcheck.org for accuracy in 2009 and again in 2018. Snopes put Chicago based Dan “I will set it right” Evon on the case. Dan, a seasoned researcher and community organizer as well as myth debunker, opened his laptop and did not rest until the facts of the matter were laid bare for America. Were American liberal progressives really the source of much of America’s social violence and murders? Or was this just another vast right-wing conspiracy out to discredit the Clintons? Dan would dig up the truth, no matter. Minutes went by as he furiously queried Google Home, SIRI and ALEXA. His furrowed brow glistened with sweat. He took a swig of orange soda… a second bite of his gluten-free, vegan PBJ. He felt the new claim simply had to be wrong. Liberals smoke lots of pot. They are peace-loving. They are not a bunch of drunk Irishmen brawling in the Boston streets at 2AM! And, Shazam, the answer revealed itself to Dan Evon in prophetic form…

Then Chicago Dan rated the maps and the claim that lib-progs create violence in society as FALSE!

Snopes lied and people died.

Snopes and Dan Evon are simply another outlet of FAKE NEWS:
Call it the arrogance of the lazy. I found the maps compelling and obvious. It was a ‘no shit, Sherlock’ moment. When Snopes, THE FACT CHECKER, came down against the maps, I was floored, so I spent the last several months combing through every state’s Uniform Crime Report and collated nearly 20,000 data points (it was really tedious) comparing per capita violent crimes, per capita murders, and voter outcomes of nearly 3,000 counties, parishes, independent cities and districts. The results made me laugh for nearly ten minutes.

Liberal-Progressives are surrounded by their own violence and a 24 hour news cycle. They do not understand that 85% of American communities simply are not like that.

The Methodology:
The 2016 Presidential Election cleanly divided America into a red half and a blue half.
American states are divided into over three thousand unique communities with their own unique socioeconomic identities. For example, while the rest of America sees the state of Oregon as a reliable liberal progressive state, once you leave Portland, the rest of the state is fairly conservative. Lots of farming, hunting, fishing and guns. Portland may make the liberal laws and elect the liberal politicians, but most of Oregon is some shade of red. Every state is like this… a complex society filled with diverse communities. If we treat each community as an individual personality, we can start to assess the effectiveness of each community in reducing violence in their local culture, and possibly apply those lessons to American cultures that are failing… like Dan Evon’s home city of Chicago.
For many years the Federal Government has requested all states to complete a Uniform Crime Report for the FBI so that crime trends can be studied. These reports are supposed to be a public resource. Some states, like Texas, do a stellar job, some states, like Mississippi and North Carolina, do such a poor job the data is useless, and some states, like Colorado, make you work for it. For the most part, I used 2016 data, but a few states were a year behind and I had to use their 2015 reports. Alaska, due to its remote location and dispersed population, is treated as a single data point rather than trying to break into several communities.
In the end, I broke down over 2900 communities in 47 states plus Washington D.C. For each community, I tabulated it as either RED, or BLUE, % votes for Trump, % votes for Clinton, overall violence rate per 100,000 in population, total murders, murder rate per 100,000, average murders per community classification, and compared those numbers to America’s overall per capita rates.

There are fifteen American communities, the bastion’s of America’s Progressive philosophies, that uniformly voted for Hillary Clinton and everything she represents. It is no surprise their cities are Hell on earth. There are seventy-six American communities that uniformly rejected Hillary Clinton. These counties represent 554,000 right-wing, conservative Americans and only 20 murders.

Here are the results:

The 438 communities that supported Hillary Clinton victimized themselves to the tune of 10,390 murders and a violent crime rate of 373.8 per 100,000 in population.

The 2,483 communities that supported Donald Trump had only 5,146 murders and a violent crime rate of 219.4 per 100,000 in population.

The 694,000 citizens of Washington D.C., America’s most liberal community, has 139 murders in 2016.

The most conservative 76 counties in America, spread over 15 states, representing about 554,000 of America’s most conservative citizens, had only 20 murders in 2016.

The median murder rate for U.S. counties is 0 (yes, zero). Over half of American counties, simply did not have a single homicide in 2016. Baltimore’s murder rate is 54 per 100,000.

The median for total murders per county for U.S. counties is also 0. Los Angeles had 622.

The median violent crime rate in the U.S. is approximately 203 per 100,000 in population. St. Louis, MO is 1703 per 100,000.

The median violent crime rate in counties that supported Trump is 181 per 100,000.

The median violent crime rate in counties that supported Clinton is 322 per 100,000.

Sorry, Mr. Evon, you just laid an egg. I. D. 10. T. What other FACTS have you been FAKING?

Once Liberal-Progressives come to power in city politics, make laws, enact policies and take over the local school systems, their world goes to hell.

But Why Are Liberal Do-gooders Prone to Violence?
Maybe it is a lack faith in a higher authority. Maybe it is a belief that the end justifies the means. Maybe it is a lack of respect for law enforcement and the rule of law in general. Maybe it is a belief that entitlements and income redistribution will save the world. Maybe it is their cultural inability to judge right from wrong, good from bad, and sick from healthy. Maybe it is their permissive attitudes tolerating, even teaching, bad behavior. I can only guess what the defining philosophical traits will be in the end. Someone else can open that can of worms.

Hillary Clinton, the long-suffering loser of the 2008 presidential primary and the 2016 presidential election cannot bring herself to stop campaigning. She recently published a new book, What Happened, where she dishes out blame for her failed candidacy. More fake news, I am afraid. Clinton lost because she is the worst Democratic candidate the party has put forth in my lifetime. For Pete’s sake, Donald Trump beat her! If that is not an indictment of her lack of moral character and ability to lead the greatest nation on Earth, I do not know what is. She lost because of who she is. There is no where else to lay the blame.

Hillary Clinton received less than 50% of the vote in about 87% of American counties. There are several counties in Idaho, Utah and Texas where she actually finished third in the voting, behind the likes of Gary Johnson and Evan McMullin. Of all that, the funniest indictment of Clinton’s character is her failure to garner a majority in any of America’s nine Clinton Counties. Too damn funny!

Clinton County, NY, 52.6% of voters picked someone else, anyone else.
Clinton County, IA, 55.3% of voters said “No way!” to Hillary.
Clinton County, MI, 59.3% of voters rejected her.
Clinton County, PA, 69.5% could not stomach the idea of Hillary as President.
Clinton County, MO, 74.8% pulled the lever for someone else.
Clinton County, IN, 71.7% of voters thought Donald Trump was a better candidate.
Clinton County, IL, Trump thumped Clinton 71.8% to 22.8%.
Clinton County, OH, Trump garnered 74.4% of the vote.
Clinton County, KY, only 12.3% of the voters thought Hillary would be better for America than Donald Trump. Ouch!

John Boehner, a professional politician but never a real statesman, is a Republican in name only. The chasm between his rhetoric and his actions had grown so vast by the time he left office it was like he had an evil twin or split personality. If a poacher cut off this rhino’s horn it would grow back in no time at all. It comes as no surprise that he dislikes Ted Cruz. Boehner tried to piss down everyone’s back and tell them it was raining, and Cruz did not buy in. He refused to get on board when Boehner sold his constituents and party down river as a favor to his left-wing, Democrat friends. Boehner as much as admitted he prefers Bernie Sander’s political views over Cruz’s, and now has made the very public claim that Ted Cruz is, indeed, Lucifer in the flesh. Well, Mr. Boehner, I have news for you. If Lucifer were here, in the flesh, he would be winning this year’s presidential race, and your next round of golf would not be with Donald Trump. You ought to crack open the Good Book before you go shooting off your mouth about end-times. By the way, why are you texting buddies with the Donald, anyway?

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A Ration of Chocolate

When Big Brother came for the landowner and took his property away,
I did nothing.
When Big Brother came for the Christians singing carols in the park,
I did nothing.
When Big Brother tried to force pro-life hospitals and healthcare workers to perform abortions,
I did nothing.
When Big Brother created a vast surveillance network that tracked my every move and every word,
I did nothing.
When Big Brother took away my right to bear arms and resist tyranny,
I did nothing.
When Big Brother finally came for me,
I accepted my ration of chocolate and did what I was told, for I would rather live safely in subjugation than risk death as a free man.